Chero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: close friend, pal
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/ˈt͡ʃe.ɾo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Chero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador≈1 in 95Kfew records
- CLChile≈1 in 190Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)close friend, pal
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chero counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Chero is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a small river in Emilia-Romagna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wlm, alternative spelling of chwerw
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Luis Chero Zuritab. 1958PEPeruvian anthropologist
- Félix Cherob. 1970PEPeruvian politician
- Jeanette Chérob. 2000DEGerman artist
- Jhon CheroPEPeruvian parasitologist
- Paolo Alberto Wong CheroPEPeruvian doctor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chero mean, and where does it come from?
- close friend, pal Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chero?
- In Spanish /ˈt͡ʃe.ɾo/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Chero have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Chero in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chero.
- How common is the name Chero?
- In India, the national register counted 3,177 people named Chero, about 1 in 417 thousand residents.
- How common is Chero compared with other names?
- In Peru, Chero is the 347th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chero?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cheroThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chero” — the 347th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.